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Black Cab Sessions

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This is a cool site/music project, Black Cab Ses­sions.

The ses­sions are all about great music and the venue strips this to its essense. We aren’t picky about genre and will hap­pily open the cab door to any­one who blows us away…

I heard about it through Tony Hawk’s tweet early this morn­ing. They fea­ture artists such as: Death Cab for Cutie, My Morn­ing Jacket, Fleet Foxes, The Cool Kids, Lykke Li, and many more great musicians.

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Brightkite iPhone App

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Brightkite recently announced it’s iPhone App com­ing to the iTunes App Store soon. Here’s the video demo of the application:

I have been using Brightkite along with Twit­ter for cou­ple of months now since James has invited me to the ser­vice. It’s a darn impres­sive social net­work­ing appli­ca­tion that uses Yahoo’s Fire Eagle which allows users to man­age their location.

The fea­tures that are planned for the Brightkite iPhone app are:

  • Auto geo-location includ­ing Place Snap­ping and Pick a Place
  • Noti­fi­ca­tions (nearby friends, posts, friend requests, com­ments & mentions)
  • Post­ing pho­tos and notes to locations
  • Nearby peo­ple and activ­ity feed
  • Friends lists and activ­ity feed
  • Peo­ple, places and posts search
  • Threaded mes­sag­ing
  • Pro­file streams
  • Place steams
  • Place­marks
  • Com­ment­ing on posts

The only draw­backs that I cur­rently forsee are the fol­low­ing (at least w/ Brightkite.com web app):

  • You must have the dis­ci­pline to “check in” to your cur­rent loca­tion. I’m hop­ing the “auto geo-location” can address this with no sweat.
  • Some­times, the sync­ing between Brightkite and Twit­ter does not work. I think this is more on Twitter’s end (from what I heard fol­low­ing @brightkite).
  • There were a cou­ple of times an emailed photo would appear late (2-hours late one-time) from the time it was taken.

All in all, it’s a great ser­vice. I can’t wait to use that iPhone app vs. going to Safari every time to check-in. I just hope the sync­ing (Brightkite to Twit­ter) get’s polished.

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What is Twitter?

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A cou­ple of friends and fam­ily have been asking:

  • What’s up w/ the sta­tus updates I see quite often?
  • What’s w/ the “@” (at sym­bol) next to names on your status?
  • What the heck is a tweet?
  • etc.

Rather than point­ing them to Twitter’s site, I rather just show them this video:

I hope that makes sense. Thanks to Com­mon Craft. They have done a great job explain­ing it “in plain english” =)

Update
Some Twit­ter terms writ­ten by Peter Cash­more on Mash­able.

Music Artists on Twitter

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I hap­pen to stum­ble upon some inter­est­ing Twit­ter pages. Here’s what I’ve found:

Most of ‘em are con­stantly updat­ing, although Lil Wayne hasn’t since 8-months ago. I think he has been pretty busy lately if you ask me =)

Update
Here’s a cou­ple more that I found:

Find more via Silent Sound Waves.

PS. WeFollow.com—is also very use­ful. It’s “user pow­ered Twit­ter direc­tory”. Here’s the sec­tion for #music, which lists the cur­rent top-25 fol­lowed music artists.

  1. Twit­ter deleted the fake account. Read up here. [↩]